Saturday, July 24, 2010

Recipe: Indian Onion Salad and Mint Yoghurt

A few days ago I had my second dinner party! I utterly love dinner parties, because in general I just love cooking for friends. Although I cook for people all the time, in the restaurant, because I don't tend to get feedback and I dont know them, so it's more like catering for numbers rather than "real people". It was an Indian themed dinner party, for five (it was four originally but my boyfriend brought another friend from the pub so it was lucky I usually make a little too much!).

For starter I made my homemade mango chutney, homemade onion salad, homemade mint sauce and lime pickle, with loads of warm poppadoms from next door (we live next to an Indian take away which is very convenient!). For mains we had my Keema Matar and Mixed Vegetable balti with some spiced rice. And for dessert we had a "strawberry shrikhand", which is like an indian spiced honeyed yoghurt with fruit. It went down really well. Aaanyway, so I thought I would give you my recipes for onion salad and mint yoghurt, they taste really really good, and are very similar to what you get in Indian Restaurants, but even nicer!

14 comments:

Love this! I just posted about a similar salad over at my blog (http://agrainofcumin.blogspot.com) An Indian buffet that I went to recently added crushed papadums to theirs for an extra crunch. It was an interesting variation.

It's funny these dishes are probably some of my most simplest recipes but they are also the most popular on the blog! I'm glad you and your daughter like, did you have it with poppadoms and the like or on the side of a curry? x

That's allright Darren- you're welcome! If you like indian dips/accompaniments, you might fancy having a go at making your own mango chutney- i have a recipe on the blog here, you'll find it under chutneys/preserves.

Hi Lucy, thanks very much, i hope you enjoyed the salad with your vegan curry! Theres a fair few vegan recipes on this blog actually, look under "vegetarian". This roast butternut squash soup is a very nice vegan dish http://chef-mels-kitchen.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Vegetarian

(i used to be vegan before i became a chef so to be honest i fairly often eat "meat free meals" at home.